I am very curious about the standards change to having 6th grade cover from around 4000BC to 1450AD and then 7th grade spend the whole year on Washington State History. I do understand that the standards are moving away from content to skill acquisition, but compressing 5500 years of world history into a year and stretching 200 years of a small region to fill out a year, seems to be illogical. That said, I have no idea the thought process behind how/why this change was made so I'd be curious to hear from folks who were involved, or anyone for that matter.